fitness

Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains

By Cody Musselman — January 9, 2023
(The Conversation) — Fitness and religion make a potent combination, one people have explored for centuries.

SoulCycle’s Peoplehood offers a gig-economy cure for loneliness

By Tara Isabella Burton — June 4, 2022
(RNS) — Intimate connection for urban dwellers may be the modern answer to pandemic loneliness.

‘Denomination matters’ in Black-focused faith-based health programs, scholars say

By Adelle M. Banks — June 28, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Faith-based health initiatives need to appropriately integrate the faith practices and norms of Black church members with denomination in mind,’ Duke scholars say.

The sin and self-care of Peloton

By Tara Isabella Burton — December 9, 2019
(RNS) — Peloton isn’t to blame if our culture is obsessed with self-improvement or for the quasi-eroticization of ‘decadent’ self-care. It's just riding alongside.

Rick Warren shares good news about Daniel’s weight loss plan

By Nanci Hellmich — December 3, 2013
(RNS) Warren was inspired to create a weight loss plan after he baptized more than 800 people one day in November 2010. After lowering more than 145,000 pounds of weight into the water, Warren said he thought, "Wow! Everybody's fat!"
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